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Software Distribution Software

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 7:33 pm
by josh
Same with the words forwards and backwards :drunk:

So... I am trying to find some software that I can use to manage my distribution, my client base for an extension I wrote is slowly growing over time and I'm about to the point where I am releasing updates & maintenance releases every so often, so I am trying to do "official release #s" and all that, and automatically email my customers download links?

Or is the proper way to handle this to make your software automatically update itself? That is an option but I wouldnt mind paying $20 a month / a few hundred one time cost or something to have the above functionality in the interim, does anyone know of some good stuff I could easily get up and running in PHP?

It would have to be secure in that it should not let an unlicensed user use a download link, the ability for users to automatically purchase and generate their download would be a plus. Its trivial to write but I dont have the time and there has to be something, lots of software companies are doing this.

Re: Software Distribution Software

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:24 am
by alex.barylski
It would have to be secure in that it should not let an unlicensed user use a download link, the ability for users to automatically purchase and generate their download would be a plus. Its trivial to write but I dont have the time and there has to be something, lots of software companies are doing this.
Excellent idea though, I have never seen anything like this before. It would require the developing company to trust the distributor with their source code though, in order to allow secure downloads, from the distro site...

Still a very interesting idea... :D

Re: Software Distribution Software

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:41 am
by josh
Or the distributor to trust the developer with the source code of the distribution software, so you can host it yourself. Probably just going to code up a simple licensing key / download system, and write a simple mailing list script that can template in people's license keys into the download URL or something, from there it wont be hard to check a timestamp or flag the download as "used" after they download that update ( so they cant share links )

Re: Software Distribution Software

Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:27 am
by JefK
If you are looking for a php distribution and license manager, I'd suggest PHPLicengine, nice interface and amazing support.

Re: Software Distribution Software

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:40 am
by josh
Thanks Ill look into it!

Re: Software Distribution Software

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:01 am
by JefK
I think you'd like it. :wink: